Two boys drown in Iowa

WHO-TV reports ten-year-old Andres Favela drowned when he was swimming with friends, went under water and never resurfaced. It happened just after 7:30 p.m. near the North Center Street Dam on the Iowa River in Marshalltown. The boy’s body was pulled from the water Tuesday.

Seventeen-year-old Kevin Kong drowned when he swam past safety buoys and then began struggling in the water at Raccoon River Beach in West Des Moines. That incident was reported just before 5 p.m. The teen’s body was found at about 6:30 p.m.